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| Roseate Spoonbill, Bombay Hook |
After nailing myself down to Whitesbog for the month of August, in September I feel like I was all over the place, including a trip to Delaware at the end of the month (and the beginning of this one). More on that trip later.
Migration means warblers and as usual I didn't do as well as I'd like--never had much luck on a couple of trips to the Island Beach bay side trails, though my one trip on the other side of the state to Palmyra was a success. As an honorary Burlco birder I was gassed to finally get a chance to explore Budd's Bogs where we started in the rain and dark and ended in sunshine with 62 species on a "slow" day. Plus, the American Bittern we flushed was a county bird for me.
I made one trip to South Park Road in Burlco with an agenda and checked off all three target birds there before it was much past 7: Great Horned Owl, Eastern Screech-Owl and Red-headed Woodpecker.
I even made it as far north as Sandy Hook where I had a so-so day. I realized there that you have to really love a place to bird it well, and walking along the trash-strewn beaches, trying to find a parking lot that wasn't either a construction site or a reserved for Boy Scouts, trying to find a rest room that wasn't arbitrarily closed, it dawned on me that I don't love Sandy Hook
Whitesbog continued to produce for me when I went there: The American Golden-Plover finally showed up and over on the Ocean County side on one of the first cool days of the month I found my year Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.
I did a couple of trips to Brig, one with Mike, one solo. Shari & I spent the last day of the month at Bombay Hook in Delaware. Comparing the two, I prefer the latter. There's more variety down there than Brig and, while I don't know this for a fact, I get the feeling that everyone isn't always bitching about the water levels in the various impoundments. There are four Roseate Spoonbills down there that have been hanging in the same spot for about two months now. They are not hard to find. While we were looking at them I spotted a Common Gallinule nearby and a Sora was whinnying off and on the whole time we were at the Daly Overlook. That's what I call fun.
The Sora brought me to 282 for the year, one more species than I had all of last year. A pandemic makes for easy comps.
Delaware: Kent, New Castle
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Brig
Snow Goose Brig
Canada Goose Whitesbog
Mute Swan Island Beach SP
Wood Duck Whitesbog
Blue-winged Teal Brig
Northern Shoveler Brig
Gadwall Brig
American Wigeon Brig
Mallard Whitesbog
American Black Duck Whitesbog
Northern Pintail Budd’s Bogs
Green-winged Teal Whitesbog
King Eider Island Beach SP
Common Eider Island Beach SP
Black Scoter Island Beach SP
Common Merganser Whitesbog
Wild Turkey 35 Sunset Rd
Pied-billed Grebe Whitesbog
Rock Pigeon Budd’s Bogs
Mourning Dove Whitesbog
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Sandy Hook
Common Nighthawk Budd’s Bogs
Eastern Whip-poor-will 35 Sunset Rd
Chimney Swift Budd’s Bogs
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Whitesbog
Clapper Rail Sandy Hook
Virginia Rail Brig
Sora Bombay Hook
Common Gallinule Bombay Hook
American Avocet Brig
American Oystercatcher Sandy Hook
Black-bellied Plover Sandy Hook
American Golden-Plover Whitesbog
Semipalmated Plover Whitesbog
Killdeer Whitesbog
Marbled Godwit Bombay Hook
Ruddy Turnstone Island Beach SP
Stilt Sandpiper Whitesbog
Sanderling Sandy Hook
Dunlin Brig
Least Sandpiper Whitesbog
White-rumped Sandpiper Brig
Pectoral Sandpiper Whitesbog
Semipalmated Sandpiper Whitesbog
Western Sandpiper Brig
Short-billed Dowitcher Brig
Long-billed Dowitcher Brig
Spotted Sandpiper Whitesbog
Solitary Sandpiper Whitesbog
Greater Yellowlegs Whitesbog
Willet Bombay Hook
Lesser Yellowlegs Whitesbog
Laughing Gull Budd’s Bogs
Ring-billed Gull Island Beach SP
Herring Gull Sandy Hook
Lesser Black-backed Gull Island Beach SP
Great Black-backed Gull Sandy Hook
Caspian Tern Whitesbog
Common Tern Island Beach SP
Forster's Tern Island Beach SP
Royal Tern Sandy Hook
Black Skimmer Brig
Double-crested Cormorant Budd’s Bogs
Brown Pelican Island Beach SP
American Bittern Budd’s Bogs
Great Blue Heron Whitesbog
Great Egret Reeves Bogs
Snowy Egret Sandy Hook
Little Blue Heron Budd’s Bogs
Tricolored Heron Great Bay Blvd
Green Heron Whitesbog
Black-crowned Night-Heron Island Beach SP
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Great Bay Blvd
White Ibis Great Bay Blvd
Glossy Ibis Brig
Roseate Spoonbill Bombay Hook
Black Vulture Budd’s Bogs
Turkey Vulture Whitesbog
Osprey Whitesbog
Northern Harrier Whitesbog
Cooper's Hawk Whitesbog
Bald Eagle Whitesbog
Red-shouldered Hawk Whitesbog
Red-tailed Hawk Budd’s Bogs
Eastern Screech-Owl South Park Rd
Great Horned Owl South Park Rd
Belted Kingfisher Whitesbog
Red-headed Woodpecker South Park Rd
Red-bellied Woodpecker Whitesbog
Downy Woodpecker Whitesbog
Hairy Woodpecker Budd’s Bogs
Northern Flicker Whitesbog
American Kestrel Budd’s Bogs
Merlin Island Beach SP
Peregrine Falcon Budd’s Bogs
Eastern Wood-Pewee Whitesbog
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Whitesbog
Acadian Flycatcher Budd’s Bogs
Willow Flycatcher Cedar Bonnet Island
Least Flycatcher Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Eastern Phoebe Whitesbog
Great Crested Flycatcher Whitesbog
Eastern Kingbird Whitesbog
White-eyed Vireo Whitesbog
Warbling Vireo Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Red-eyed Vireo Whitesbog
Blue Jay 35 Sunset Rd
American Crow Whitesbog
Fish Crow Whitesbog
Common Raven Whitesbog
Carolina Chickadee Whitesbog
Tufted Titmouse 35 Sunset Rd
Northern Rough-winged Swallow Whitesbog
Purple Martin Whitesbog
Tree Swallow Whitesbog
Bank Swallow Whitesbog
Barn Swallow Whitesbog
Cliff Swallow Whitesbog
Red-breasted Nuthatch Double Trouble State Park
White-breasted Nuthatch Whitesbog
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Palmyra Cove Nature Park
House Wren Whitesbog
Marsh Wren Brig
Carolina Wren Whitesbog
European Starling Whitesbog
Gray Catbird Whitesbog
Brown Thrasher Whitesbog
Northern Mockingbird Budd’s Bogs
Eastern Bluebird Whitesbog
Swainson's Thrush Palmyra Cove Nature Park
American Robin Whitesbog
Cedar Waxwing Sandy Hook
House Sparrow Sandy Hook
House Finch 35 Sunset Rd
American Goldfinch Whitesbog
Chipping Sparrow Whitesbog
Field Sparrow Budd’s Bogs
Seaside Sparrow Great Bay Blvd
Nelson's Sparrow Great Bay Blvd
Savannah Sparrow Brig
Song Sparrow Whitesbog
Swamp Sparrow Cedar Bonnet Island
Eastern Towhee Whitesbog
Bobolink Whitesbog
Baltimore Oriole Island Beach SP
Red-winged Blackbird Whitesbog
Brown-headed Cowbird Brig
Common Grackle Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Boat-tailed Grackle Island Beach SP
Ovenbird Whitesbog
Northern Waterthrush Whitesbog
Black-and-white Warbler Budd’s Bogs
Tennessee Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Connecticut Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Common Yellowthroat Whitesbog
American Redstart Whitesbog
Cape May Warbler Island Beach SP
Northern Parula Bunker Hill Bogs
Magnolia Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Bay-breasted Warbler Island Beach SP
Blackburnian Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Yellow Warbler Island Beach SP
Chestnut-sided Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Blackpoll Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Palm Warbler Brig
Pine Warbler 35 Sunset Rd
Yellow-rumped Warbler Cedar Bonnet Island
Prairie Warbler Whitesbog
Black-throated Green Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Canada Warbler Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Scarlet Tanager Island Beach SP
Northern Cardinal 35 Sunset Rd
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Blue Grosbeak Colliers Mills WMA
Indigo Bunting Palmyra Cove Nature Park
Dickcissel Island Beach SP
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